Avaliação do curso tecnico em enfermagem/PROFAE pelos egressos e supervisores no estado do Ceará

Abstract

The professionalization of Project workers from the area of ​​Nursing (PROFAE), launched in 1999 by the Ministry of Health, aimed to promote quality improvement of health care by offering professional training to nursing staff, employed in public networks and private, without proper training. The School of Public Health of Ceará (ESP-CE) provider, and served as executor of PROFAE classes, qualifying more than five thousand auxiliaries and 700 nursing staff in the period 2002 to 2005.Considerada that, in Ceará, few research evaluation of vocational courses within the PROFAE proposed study was to evaluate the Practical Nursing Course, offered in partnership PROFAE / ESP-EC, in terms of the graduates and supervisors about the course development, and quantitative, as in order to clarify the socioeconomic profile of graduates and to relate the process of working with the training received in PROFAE. Two focus groups were conducted with the participation, on average, of 10 graduates in each, and a focus group with 10 supervisors, using semi-structured. The statements were categorized and analyzed in the light of Bardin. We applied a structured questionnaire to 269 graduates coming from six municipalities benefit from the course. It was observed that the course improved the knowledge and skills of nursing staff noted the satisfactory completion of subjects, with regard to the methodology of Curriculum, the quality of materials, the performance of the technical-pedagogical and evaluation system. The political and institutional aspects have not been well evaluated. The difficulties mentioned were primarily related course logistics, lack of support of municipal management, limiting the fields of training and management expenses. The profile of graduates, there was reassurance in nursing females (90%). The majority (73%) belonged to the age group between 30 and 49 years old and came from families of low socioeconomic and low education. Of the graduates, 97% remained embedded in health, predominantly in the public sector, working in hospital services. There was a tendency of graduates who remain in the same way. As for those who act as technical quality, the results highlighted consistently, the positive effect on the course work. We conclude therefore that the course increased the possibilities for integration and retention of skilled workers in the health sector, provided completion of professional training and expansion of basic technical knowledge that will support the review of the proposed course of technical ESP-Nursing EC, with regard to pedagogical and managerial aspects, which leads to reflection on the importance of continuous evaluation of courses.